Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truck Driver William Mortimer Leigh, 55, was a happily married, home-loving man-perhaps twice as happy as most. For where others make do with one, William had two wives, two homes, and two sets of children-and doted on them...
...cozy cottage at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, William and Emily Leigh, his wife of 33 years, had spent many a contented hour together through the years with their five fine children, who range in age from 32 to 17. At another cottage in Ancoats, just five miles away along his truck route, William found equal contentment under the name Spencer with Elsie, his second wife, and their happy brood of four children, aged...
...they followed the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline eastward toward Teheran, open desert stretched for miles on either side, and there was no road of any kind, nothing but the pipeline to mark the route. Yet out of the blue came an Arab truck headed straight for the leading Land Rover, which hastily stopped. Swerving at the last moment, the Arab sideswiped it, tearing a rear fender, and drove on unconcerned...
...Maryland breweries lobbied the bill through both houses soon after Carling announced plans to build a $12 million brewery near Halethorpe. Md. Carling officials were more irritated than worried by the bill; they can build in nearby states and truck their beer into Maryland. But the U.S. State Department was understandably disturbed about the measure. U.S. investors have a $9 billion stake in Canada and could be hard hit if any Canadian legislature retaliated against U.S. firms. The Department got off a strong letter to Governor McKeldin urging him to "give appropriate consideration" i.e., veto bill 38, and warning that...
...Paulo prosecuting attorney had to look long and hard to find a legal device for reopening the Chevrolet case, but find it he did. In his earlier acquittal, Adhe-mar had been tried for diverting automobiles to his personal profit. No mention, the prosecutor ruled, was made of five trucks that were also part of the deal. Accordingly, the 28-man court (complete with nine new members appointed in recent months by Adhemar's archrival, Governor Jánio Quadros) convened early one afternoon last week, studied the truck charges against the absent defendant and passed sentence...